# The concept of "wizardly ethics"

Joseph Larson (jlarson@mosquito.frcc.cccoes.edu)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 15:01:41 PST

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    On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Kenneth L. Bolton wrote:

    > <snip> When one of the guests from the remote locations
    > began acting up, spamming the discussion, insulting the participants,
    > acting unreasonably aggresive toward others of the guests, the
    > responsibility fell to me to @toad the bozo.
    This is infact the purpose for toad...but:

    > <snip> =D1 the toadee was the professor of one of the
    > other classes and it affected my grade.
    This is an understandable problem. I myself will opt for booting the=20
    player before toading, expecialy if it's someone who can affect grades.

    > ken
    One solution is to use an alias when setting up your wizard accounts.=20
    However, for most of us it's far too late. You could @rename yourself but=
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    when someone else sees you typing and holds a conversation with you, it's=
    =20
    kinda hard to avoid the situation. The other option is no to toad the=20
    person but demote them to a programmer. (difficult, but not impossable)=20
    However I can understand the complexity of the problem. I myself would=20
    make a lengthy note explaning the behavior of the @toad-ed wiz and mail=20
    it to the @toad-ie with carbon copies to your moo user list. (I assume=20
    you have one) This will explain your actions while at the same time=20
    assure all users that you do not like to do it, but have to.

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